"It's great, but it's a little overdue," said one of the six women, who asked not to be identified. The vote clears the way for initiation of the six women and nine men who were chosen last April by the 1991 delegation, in defiance of the society's alumni board.
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More than two dozen Bonesmen contacted yesterday refused to comment, maintaining the society's legendary code of secrecy. It was only later yesterday, when William Prout, a lawyer for the Russell Trust Association, the Skull and Bones corporation, was asked if women had been admitted, that the decision was disclosed, with one word - "Yes." 'A Little Overdue'īut the debate and ballot-counting dragged through the night and into the early hours yesterday before members began drifting out of "The Tomb," still declining to discuss the outcome. Throughout the evening, clusters of Bonesmen emerged from the building, slipped silently through the clamoring reporters, and caucused in nearby restaurants and bars before returning to the weighty matter at hand - whether six women should be allowed among the 15-member 1992 delegation. There are over 700 living Skull and Bones alumni those who could not attend were permitted to vote by proxy. More than 125 members, many of them elderly and requiring assistance on the stairs, had squeezed past reporters Thursday afternoon, making their way into the hulking, windowless, mausoleum-like building on the New Haven campus that serves as clubhouse for the 159-year-old society. can no longer rightly be considered just a "good old boy" network.
Boren and the conservative columnist William F. (Sept.Shrouding their deliberations in a silence worthy of the nation's most famous secret society, members of Yale University's Skull and Bones - Bonesmen all since 1832 - voted Thursday night to allow Boneswomen into their midst.Īnd with that vote, a group that lists on its honor roll President Bush, Senator David L. While the book may demystify Skull and Bones, it also imparts the sense that Robbins, herself a Yale graduate and member of a rival society, believes in Yalies' elitist entitlement to power and prestige. Bush during Yale's tercentennial celebrations in 2002, and while she relies heavily on the testimony of many Bonesmen, she never names names. The narrative never gets more dramatic than Robbins staking out the Tomb for President George W. She reveals the inventory of the Tomb (an evocative name for what is essentially a frat house) and details about the group's oddly juvenile fraternal ritual. On the other hand, Robbins turns up much that is prosaic, as she traces the society's origins back to 1832, when William Russell founded it as retribution for a classmate's having been passed over by Phi Beta Kappa she discovers that the club's cryptic iconography is derived from German university societies.
On the one hand, she propagates the myth, spelling out how Bonesmen have promoted one another in enormously successful political and business careers they presided over the creation of the atomic bomb as well as the CIA, she says. Robbins then proposes demystifying the group. Robbins ( Quarterlife Crisis) begins by setting readers up with the ridiculous myth of Yale's Skull and Bones, an exclusive society whose powerful members-including both presidents Bush-are sworn to secrecy for life about the club's activities: the myth says that the society's members form a clique that rules the world.
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